Mystery of Existence and How to Solve it by Using Elements of Reason and Truth.

The beginning of the universe is shrouded in mystery and as such, it cannot be conceived by limited conceptual thinking of human minds. If you consider, that the creation began at some point then, automatically the picture of the time frame of such event comes into play.

Humans were not even there to observe, as it were far beyond the event horizon. However, if you can date the origin of the universe, then what, if at all, pre-dates such origins ?

The answers containing the secrets of life, universe and everything are only to be found in the concept of zero and infinity.

We are finite beings, with our finite minds, having a finite existence. Our lifespans are limited and so, is the hope for unravelling the mysteries of existence, for an individual, in his / her limited lifetime. The only hope for one is to subscribe to the Hindu philosophy of perfecting oneself so as to evolve and grow spiritually, so as to further liberate one's Self from the bondage this world, inevitably creates or results in.

Whether we face it or not, whether we accept it or not; we all live in our limited prisons, our very own self-limiting prisons of our minds, egos and our lives. No matter what good we gain, what good we experience; we, as humans, are never truly satisfied and are given to such endless cravings, until we reach our graves. 

We want growth and progress in our personal lives, both for ourselves and our loved ones. We want to experience happiness and we hope continually for success, joys and fruits of material pursuits, which engages us and keeps us busy, before we realize that we are running out of time and that, the death is near.

Throughout our lives, our main quest is for happiness / bliss, that is ananda. We also are self-aware, aware of our existence, in fact we have to be as without it, there will be no conscious human experience of life and life would be like that of plants or animals only with their most basic instincts, so it is chitta. Every human being knows deep in their heart that truth is the prime force, which is the most powerful and to which all humans, good or otherwise, have to be subject to. Even the most evil person in the world knows that some day he / she will have to answer to the higher authority of 'Truth,' though they can easily fool the masses, or have already deceived them by controlling the media, rewriting the documents after having destroyed the originals and hence, not letting the truth slip away, at all costs. Hence, 'the truth' or sat.

God allows so much suffering in the world because God simply, does not care. Our lives and conditions of it, in this material world are entirely our own responsibility and our own business, which we have to mind, settle, learn from, experience, adjust or die, accordingly. You can, one can easily say, that 'There's no God,' but the true 'anatomy' of God is your own anatomy and the mechanisms of God, the way how God operates, is your own true mechanism. It is your own 'will,' if you choose to ignore it, or use it freely. 

In a way each one is a victim to each's own stupidity, in that, Einstein was also sure about. If you are careless and drive recklessly, you will meet with an accident; there's nothing that God gotta do or can do anything about. You work your own miracles, during times of need, through the talents and powers of your own instrument cluster, i.e. mind, body and soul, which is 'Godly,' if not God-given. 'Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law.' But choose accordingly, with regards to all possible consequences of your actions, which you will have to inevitably face, at some point in the future, if not 'now' or 'sooner.'

The secret to happiness, success, well-being, fame and wealth is, 'to stop fighting with oneself,' and let your life flow in the natural path. Let your productivity, your time and your effort flow without any reservations, with all your creative juices and without you holding anything back. You suffer when you lie to yourself. In fact, you suffer the most. Do you want to live in the light of The Truth ? Or do you want to keep on struggling against yourself ? You gotta be and stay, sensible for your life to be good, in your life and throughout, for all practical purposes. 

If you want your life to work out, you have to stop living your life like 'in a prison,' with your age-old negative-limited thinking. You gotta expand, you have to expand. Things you believe, now and the things you used to believe, then; are entirely different and so, are not true any more. You have to change according to the new situations. You have to adjust yourself to the needs and demands of the present.

It's easy to be lazy, to be stupid, and do nothing and hard to be and do, an exact opposite of all these things. Miracles do not happen, it takes work to get something worth having. It takes pain to get to that one moment of your life that really makes it worth 'the living', that which we all commonly call 'happiness.' Hard labour, work, effort, action and initiatives; should be your focal points in life.

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Desire, The Root Cause of Pain and Progress.

All powerlessness comes from a 'state of wanting and feeling of inadequacy, of what one has, to be insufficient or lesser than 'ideal'.' All mental sufferings come from a desire. Be it a desire, for a particular event to take place or for a want to be fulfilled. That want can be anything, an object, money, peace and solitude or a person. Any person existing on planet earth, in the solar system of the milky way galaxy in the universe, is unhappy only because they have wants, they desire. They desire an experience, they desire something different. That is to say, they are not happy now. They may know what they want or they may not, that does not make any difference. But they all have one thing in particular, the one thing that is so common about them all, about us all that it has simply become a universal truth, that they / we all fail to realise nay, even acknowledge the fact that the sense of insufficiency, the dissatisfaction itself is the cause of each one's unhappiness. 

Throughout the history of mankind, each person willingly pursued their desires, chased them, fought for them, ran behind them and hence, kept themselves busy so, they didn't even get a chance to wait and ponder before it was all over. This life, their brief sojourn upon earth was all but gone. Maybe they did everything meaningful and purposeful with their lives, made a mark, left a legacy and died a peaceful death. But they could not help, but be subject to this desire mechanism, that is running the lives of all men and all women in the history of human civilization, and that is what solely runs the human species, in my opinion. That's what made our civilization progress, prosper and advance in sciences, arts or in any of the human endeavours such as, hi-fi technology and extreme engineering. One generation discovers and unearths new knowledge, methods and ideas, to be used and build up upon, by the subsequent generations. This leads to an exponential rise in knowledge and the rate of progress. Humans never stop at anything, as it is inbuilt in us to desire, to overcome, to know, to improve and to aspire for better.

It all gives us, both pain and progress. But can we bypass this 'desiring mechanism,' which is so ingrained in us, and is at the core of our existence, the very flesh and bones? A human's life and memory is such that the memory of every moment, every hour and every day becomes too much to keep and is lost, hence repeating history, by repeating mistakes. That should be and is perhaps, the greatest reason to study history, so as not to forget the repeated miseries of the past, and the pain and suffering borne, as a result. Your days become burdensome because you fail to infuse within yourself fresh enthusiasm, be it through the use of an external device such as, an inspirational book, an adventure or any other form of recreation, provided that it works. Hence, it becomes very clear that the goal of every individual is to advance, to evolve and not stagnate and nullify progress. You will be happy only to the extent that you risk and learn something new each day, by getting out of your comfort zone, in situations and at times, when you deem wise. You may not be able to help but be stuck in the rut, in many aspects of your life. Yet there are some new things you can try, learn or do every day. Above all, keep in mind that you are hindering progress, if you are not doing so, even if it be at the expense of momentary personal pain. You can use this moment, your time is now.

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Concerning Conflicting Ideas, Conflicts and Contradicting ideas of your mind and their Destructiveness.

'Why is your life so difficult?,' you may ask. Why were you overcome by folly and committed a grave error, made a wrong choice, failed to be on time at work, did that destructive act, caused by your impulsiveness at the moment? Why is life, a flux of endless change? Why do you have to always remain as a victim of life, in some way or the other, despite what you do and what changes you incorporate and implement in your life, in yourself? Life bothers us all, no doubt about that. And it does more than anything else, cause we have to go through it all. We have no other option. It's like, 'Do we have a choice?' No, sarcastically.

Some people have ended their lives by committing that one act of treason and butchery against themselves, i.e. suicide. Is suicide a solution? Obviously, no. It isn't? But they can't see the light of it, unfortunately, when they are overcome with deep despair, sadness, hopelessness, helplessness; at that damned moment, when making that damned move. For some insensitive people, other people who don't matter in their 'Great scheme of life,' are a 'help' in getting rid of the surplus population, as if they were paying the health bills and the medical bills of the deceased. In the modern world, in the modern age; people are insensitive, and people will be insensitive hence, expect them to be so, beforehand.

The life you have is your responsibility. People have descended the levels of selfishness and arrogance, but you must make sure that your life does not suffers the evils of other 'invisible men and women,' whom you cannot point at, directly and their names, you do not even know. All the nasty people in the world are a cause for stress, conflicting ideas and hypocrisy in your mind. The question which then remains, is only this - Will you imbibe the wrong, immoral ideas of our political brethren, and make them your role-models, in an act of involuntary submission to the status quo, by becoming 'helpless,' or will you be intelligent enough to fight the evil by living your life and moulding your character, your own way?

We unconsciously tend to imitate the behaviours of our superiors, seniors, our bosses in the workplace, starlets, 'heroes,' celebrities and people who have achieved a considerable fame. We simply adore them, consciously or unconsciously. We are bombarded by the media about the lifestyles of those we adore and the cars they drive. We see them everywhere, on the big screens, on the big banners and featuring in the endless stream of new movies produced every year. We are hypnotized and mesmerized, without our knowing. We have lost our individuality and we no longer know what we want to be, what is wrong, what is right, other than that which is portrayed on the television screen, right in front of our very own eyes.

We want to be the exploiters rather than the exploited cause we have become very sure that it is the only way the society works and 'the only way,' society could ever work. Though we complain about people who harass, rule and exploit as 'unjust and evil,' we secretly would want to be like them, if given a chance or when the right opportunity appears. This is how corruption works, this is how the whole system tends to get obsolete, become degraded and most importantly, this is how faith, the only real virtue, is destroyed. And we all know what happens when faith is destroyed, and the general consensus of the people is mistrust, anger and hatred.

It is all human nature. When we compete, we compete only to win. For a dog-eat-dog world to arise, there has to be a significant number of dogs already, in the system, to begin with. These dogs are our leaders, these 'dogs' become our leaders through our very own 'mass consent.' We all are consenting to it, we all are fine with it, we all are 'okay' with having all the wrong, criminal people in our midst, in our administration. We consent through our silence, because we don't have time for 'all this.' We have other important matters that require our immediate attention, we have to feed and fend for our own families rather than caring about the neighbours getting raped or killed!!

A N U J  C H U G H

The Closest You Can Ever Come To The Ultimate Understanding Of Our Universe / The Universe.

The beginning of the universe is shrouded in mystery and as such, it cannot be conceived by limited conceptual thinking of human minds. If you consider, that the Creation began at some point then, automatically the picture of the time frame of such event comes into play. Humans were not even around to observe, as it were far beyond the event horizon. 

However, if you can date the origin of the universe, then what, if at all, predates such origins? The answers containing the secrets of life, universe and everything are only to be found in the concept of zero and infinity. We are finite beings, with our finite minds, having a finite existence. Our lifespans are limited and so, is the scope for unravelling the mysteries of existence, for an individual, in his / her limited lifetime. 

The only hope for one is to subscribe to the hindu philosophy of perfecting oneself so as to evolve and grow spiritually, so as to further liberate oneself from the bondage this world, inevitably creates or results in. Whether we face it or not, whether we accept it or not; we all live in our limited prisons, our very own self-limiting prisons of our minds, egos and our lives. No matter what good we gain, what good we experience; we, as humans, are never truly satisfied and are given to such endless cravings, until we reach our graves.

We want growth and progress in our personal lives, both for ourselves and our loved ones. We want to experience happiness and we hope continually for success, joys and fruits of material pursuits, which engages us and keeps us busy before we realize that we are running out of time and that, the death is near. 

Throughout our lives, our main quest is for happiness / bliss, that is, ananda. We also are self-aware, aware of our existence, infact we have to be, as without it, there will be no conscious human experience of life, and life would be like that of plants or animals, with only their most basic instincts, so it is chitta or self-awareness. 

Every human being knows deep in their heart that truth is the prime force, which is the most powerful and to which all humans, good or otherwise, are and have to be subject to, in due course of time. Even the most evil person in the world knows that someday he/she will have to answer to the higher authority of 'Truth,' though they can easily fool the masses, or have already deceived them by controlling the media, rewriting the documents after having destroyed the originals and hence, not letting the truth slip away, at all costs.

Hence, 'the truth,' or Sat. God allows so much suffering in the world because God simply, does not care. Our lives and conditions of it, in this material world are entirely our own responsibility and our own business, which we have to mind, settle, learn from, experience, adjust or die, accordingly, ourselves. God has got nothing to do with it. In many ways, 'God' is a religious fallacy, an invention, a belief system.

You can, one can, easily say that 'there's no God,' but the true anatomy of God is your own miraculous 'anatomy,' and the mechanisms of God, the way how God operates, is your own true mechanism. It is your own 'will,' if you choose to ignore it, or use it freely. In a way, each one is a victim, to each's own stupidity, just as Einstein was also sure about.

If you are careless and drive recklessly, you will meet with an accident; there's nothing that 'God' gotta do, or can do, anything about. You work your own miracles, during times of need, through the talents and powers of your own instrument cluster, i.e. mind, body and soul, which are godly, if not 'God-given.' 'Do what thou will, shall be the whole of the law.' Just like the way Thelema states, but choose accordingly, with regards to all possible consequences of your actions, which you will have to inevitably face, at some point in the future, if not 'now' or 'sooner.' 


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It's OK for God to only exist in your mind, if it serves you !!

In the book '50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know' By 'Ben Dupre,' I found another interesting perspective on life, God, free will, evil and human suffering. Here's the extract from the chapter titled 'Evil,' that I want my readers to read, ponder and know about :-

 

"THE FREE WILL DEFENCE

The presence of evil in the world offers the most serious challenge to the idea 

that there is an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving god. Historically, the most
influential argument used to counter this challenge - to show that there are sufficient 

reasons why a morally perfect god might yet choose to allow evil to exist - is the 

so-called 'free will defence'. Human free will, it is argued, is a divine gift of enormous 

value; our freedom to make genuine choices allows us to live lives of real moral 

worth and to enter into deep relationship of love and trust with God. However, 

God could not have made this gift to us without the risk of our abusing it - of our

misusing our freedom to make the wrong choices. It was a risk worth taking and a 

price worth paying, but God could not have eliminated the possibility of moral 

baseness without depriving us of a greater gift - the capacity for moral goodness.

The most obvious difficulty that confronts the free will defence is the existence in
the world of natural evil. Even if we accept that free will is a possession so precious
that it is worth the cost in so-called 'moral evil' - the bad and vicious things brought
about when people use their freedom to make wrong choices - what possible sense

can we make of naturally occuring evil? How would God have undermined or 

diminished our free will in any way if he had suddenly wiped out the HIV virus,

haemorrhoids, mosquitoes, flash floods and earthquakes?"

If logical reasoning is your only way that you employ, to survive / stay alive and function in this world, you would immediately reject the idea of 'God,' i.e., if you ever accepted it in the first place, wholly, partially or even slightly. (i.e., considered doing it some time in the future to maintain / restore your social status quo) That would be the next logical step for you to take, isn't it? 

But the belief in God, in the context of my blog, is irrespective of the debate whether God exists in reality or not. It is just that some people derive their inner strength from their belief in God and God virtually becomes a reality for them, for all practical purposes. Then you may begin to wonder, looking at their magical lives, that all of it is not just self-hypnosis, it is much more than that. 

It is a miracle, what beliefs can do to you and even, for you. It is pure psychology in action. Your mind and body is an integral whole. It is dynamic, always changing and never at rest or static. It will always undergo changes as per your ever-changing views, thoughts, habits and actions, newly acquired tastes / patterns of thoughts, lifestyle and behaviour, borrowed ideas, social conditioning, accepted notions and world-view.

The most important thing to note here is that, the condition of your mind will always have an effect on your body and the state of your physical health, i.e., your body, will always have an effect on your mental health, i.e., your mind. There's always a reality beyond your self-imposed mind-body prison that you can consider, which is waiting for you to discover.

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Few more views on money & spirit.

As you can see now, life is much about the ideas you entertain. It is not so much about what's out there but, what's in you. What's out there is constanly changing. It is like a page-turning story of a very big novel. What's in you is also constantly changing, except your core part. That centre within you, is unchanging. It likes stability, despite changes.

Your core, your centre, wants to keep good things about you, in your life permanently. It deems them essential, without which you may not survive. As in, you may have to encounter bad times. But, these things are a different matter. Surviving and enjoying success, is more a fucntion of your mental faculties than the physical ones.

There is no such thing as spirit and spirituality, subsequently. It's the seduction of the authors, to still keep one in a mental fairyland, even in one's adulthood. Easiest way to lose one's sanity, is to have no certainty in one's life. To try and not do. To fall and give / make excuses. To dream, and not make things happen. It's all, a lack of initiative and self-love. Laziness is another matter, altogether.

It is so because even when you are not lazy but only just a labourer, your life is meaningless. You may want to have better things in your life, but will you get around to achieve them ? Or, will you deceive yourself thinking that, your daily routine of hard labour will get them for you ? It is said that, if hardwork were such a wonderful thing then rich people would have kept it all, for themselves.

Love thyself enough to know this -
'Money is a wonderful thing, because it can improve the quality of your life.'

And then, take initiatives.

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Thoughts to live by...

Every mistake is always rooted in thought. The reason that you end up in the same problems again  and again, is that you failed in progressive thinking, as a 'forward-looking individual,' that you could have been and were supposed to be.

You face difficulty in life to the extent where your thoughts lack direction and clarity. There is no substitute for application. Life is a learning experience. And there is no escape or respite from problems, other than their proper and correct solution. Whatever way you try to console yourself or gratify yourself otherwise, is futile escapism.

You are born and you are existing, your life is a problem and it is only yours. Others will be able to help you only if you are able to help and sustain yourself.

Every low-paying, low-end job, only works on exploitation and harassment. It cashes on the unfortunate circumstances and weaknesses of an individual, in a society.

Wealth is power. Wealth is money, property and possessions. An individual grows only to the extent of the growth in wealth, of the concerned individual. The concepts of avoiding material happiness to find God or to attain spiritual heights though valid, are confined to fulfillment of certain conditions. From the material viewpoint, they are anti-growth, life-negative and dangerous to one's well-being, if the individual is ignorant of such spiritual conditions or does not fulfill them and keeps on avoiding material work, pursuits and happiness.

Your life is a calamity. You will always tend to think about the future and the future will always seem dark. No thought will ever console you. You don't know and will never know how much work and how many steps it will take, for you to become happy and successful until you reach it. Philosophy is a futile pursuit and many have wasted their lives in it's pursuit. You just can't imagine that number.

You are your own heaven and your own hell. Other factors, other people and other parameters, affect your life. But the power you have, to decide for yourself how they will affect you, is immense. There is a very little conscious acceptance of this power, on your part. You have to groom yourself in strict conditions, i.e. 'self-grooming.'

Finding yourself in an unfamiliar place and dark prospects, is not a thing to be despised. It is an opportunity, not yet figured out. 

Every day, do something that was beyond your reach, the previous day. 

The more easy-going you are, the more easily your life becomes nasty. You are supposed to tackle and battle and fight, daily.

In your death-bed, you will realize that all your possessions, wealth, achievements and accomplishments are going to mean nothing. But being a loser, you will regret your self for kicking around while you were as good as dead, your entire lifetime.

You don't know what kind of hardships you will face but, you should be assured that you are going to face them; no matter what direction you choose, in your life.

Acquirement of wealth and all that your heart desires, is the most beautiful thing on earth.

Nevermind, that we are not able to take care of each other. We are not meant to. Only God thinks about each and everyone.

Brutality and injustice of human world is such that, an individual's life is worth only the amount of money he / she has.

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